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District 5 applicants outline multi-pronged approaches to housing and homelessness
Summary
Seven candidates for Pima County District 5 described housing affordability, stagnant wages and homelessness as interconnected problems and urged coordinated county, city, tribal and state strategies including using county-owned land, workforce development and expanded social services.
Seven applicants for the Pima County Board of Supervisors’ District 5 vacancy told a League of Women Voters forum that housing affordability and homelessness are multi‑faceted problems that require coordinated action among county, city, tribal and state partners.
Candidates at the virtual forum on May 1 emphasized a mix of housing production, wage growth, workforce training and expanded support services rather than a single solution. “We need to be able to work along with each other with the city of Tucson, but as well as the state level, and we're gonna have to find a way to work at the federal level to address different facets at each different layer of government,” said Luis David Arruzzo Sr., who described long experience as a community case manager.
Why it matters: District 5 includes neighborhoods that candidates said face high poverty rates, rising rental costs and concentrations of mobile-home residents on fixed incomes. Candidates…
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